The Quick Start Guide to

The Brick Building Role Playing Game

Quick Start to the Epic Brick Adventures Introductory Rules

Epic Brick Adventures ©2021 Brick Masters Academy


Quick Start Guide
If you have never played a Role Playing Game before, the number of pages in the Introductory Rules Guidebook
may feel a little daunting. Rest assured, you don’t need to read the entire Guidebook to start playing. Actually,
only one person needs to skim the rules and that is the BrickMaster. It’s their job to guide the players through the
adventure and the rules. This Quick Start Guide points out the essentials to do and read before setting off on
your first adventure.

STEP 1: SELECT A BRICKMASTER AND SOME PLAYERS

The BrickMaster is the one telling the story, while the players are the main characters in that story. It’s
important that the BrickMaster has a pretty good grasp on the rules and the story they want to tell loosely
planned out. That plan can be a pre-made adventure, like the Introductory Adventure you can download
from our website, or it can be your own homemade madness. We suggest that when starting out, you use
the Introductory Adventure first.

STEP 2: PLAYERS CHOOSE AND BUILD THEIR MINIHEROES

Each player plays a character in the story. Choose either a Pre-Generated MiniHero and download it from
the Epic Brick Adventure website or make your own MiniHero from scratch.

If you are making up your own character, you should download and print the blank MiniHero Character
Sheet (One for each Player - Front and Back) and read the Creating Your Own MiniHero section of The
Introductory Rules Guidebook on page 8. Grab some parts and build your MiniHero!

CHARACTER WALKTHROUGH
CHARACTER CREATION CHECKLIST
(in the recommended order of completion)

Download and Print MiniHero Character Sheet

Determine starting Cash on Hand

Add your Name & Today’s Date

Choose some basic Equipment

Choose where your MiniHero is from

Select a weapon & armour if appropriate

Choose your MiniHero’s Occupation

Give your MiniHero an awesome Name

Decide what your MiniHero is good at

Build your MiniHero out of parts!

List what your MiniHero is bad at

Doodle a pic of your MiniHero or take a pic to print
Determine Ability Levels
out and glue on.


First thing you’ll need is a MiniHero Character Sheet for each player. Keeping track of your MiniHero’s Stats and
other information is simple using the MiniHero Character Sheets found on the website at
www.EpicBrickAdventures.com

(You will find a quick breakdown of the different sections of the MiniHero Character Sheet on the last pages of the
Introductory Rules Guidebook.)
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STEP 3: DOWNLOAD & READ THE INTRODUCTORY ADVENTURE & CHEAT SHEET
While the players are choosing or making their MiniHeroes, the BrickMaster can read the Introductory
Adventure. The Adventure is designed so that both the BrickMaster and the Players can learn the Rules
on the fly without having to read the entire Introductory Rules Guidebook. At anytime you’ll be able to
refer to the rules in the Introductory Rules Guidebook for clarification on the simplified rules in the
Introductory Adventure.

While you’re at the website downloading the Introductory Adventure, also download the Introductory
Cheat Sheets and print them out. These are super handy reference charts that are great for quickly
referencing information so you don’t have to flip through pages in the Introductory Rules Guidebook.

STEP 4: GATHER SOME BRICKS

Grab some bricks and some brick people and see if you can build some very simple modular brick builds
for the Introductory Adventure. If you don’t have the exact bricks as the suggested images in the
Introductory Adventure, just work with what you got.

STEP 5: GO THROUGH THE STUFF YOU NEED TO PLAY CHECKLIST

Go through the items from the Stuff You Need to Play Checklist on the following page. Once you have
everything gathered up you are ready to go!

Stuff You Need or Might Need to Play Checklist

Need Might Need
1 to 8 Players and a BrickMaster
42 Buttons, beads, rocks or poker chips

*(if you don’t have the Bag of Bricks)

Bricks

TrackPack

Bag of Bricks with Action Bricks

MiniHero Stands

MiniHeroes & Other Brick People

MiniHero Character Sheets

Pencils, eraser and paper

Snacks

What is this Stuff?

1 TO 8 PLAYERS AND A BRICKMASTER:
 1 to 8 players and a BrickMaster. You need at least two people to play, one BrickMaster, and one player. Three
or four people make up an ideal group, up to about a max of eight.

BrickMaster:
The BrickMaster is the one telling the story, while the players are the main characters in that story. For
example: If the Lord of the Rings books were an Epic Brick Adventure, the players would be Frodo,
Gandalf, and the rest of the fellowship, and the BrickMaster would be the narrator, Sauron, Soromon,
Elrond, all the orcs, all the hobbits... You get the idea, the BrickMaster is every character that the players
aren't.

Players:
Each player plays a character in the story. As a player, you don't need to know all the rules, just the ones
pertaining to your character. So understanding how Challenges work and what your different stats do is
helpful (for both you and the BrickMaster). That being said, if the BrickMaster has a good grasp on the
game, then you don't really need to know any of the rules at all! You should know your character though.
What kind of person are they? What are their goals? stuff like that.

BRICKS:
Having at least a few brick pieces makes for a more enjoyable game. If you don't have bricks (or you want to
play on a long road trip) don't fret, you can still play, it just involves more imagination.

BAG OF BRICKS WITH ACTION BRICKS:

The Bag of Bricks or Brick Bag is a bag of bricks of the same type or element
(typically a 2x2 brick) that generates random results. The bricks are composed
of two different coloured sets of bricks plus 2 special bricks called the
Epic Success and Epic Blunder bricks that are also distinct (often
transparent) from the other bricks.

For those who don’t happen to have a Bag of Bricks available for
whatever reason, can use just about anything in a bag: buttons,
beads, rocks, poker chips, coins or wooden blocks. You can paint
them if need be to create 2 sets of 20 in two colours plus the 2 special ones for Epic Successes and Epic
Blunders. Just make sure they all feel exactly the same.

But really, just get yourself some bricks!

To learn how to fully use the Brick Bag go to the Bag of Bricks section on page 14 in
the Introductory Rules Guidebook.

MINIHERO STANDS:
The standard MiniHero stand in the game is a 4x4 plate. These will keep your
MiniHero from falling over all the time during the game and give you a sense of
how much space each MiniHero takes up. You will need at least a couple MiniHero
Stands for the BrickMaster’s NPCs as well.

MINIHEROES AND OTHER BRICK PEOPLE:

If the players have their own brick people or plastic figures and some spare parts, accessories, change of hats,
etc, that is always a good thing. A few will be needed for NPCs as well.

MINIHERO CHARACTER SHEETS:

You are going to need a few MiniHero Character Sheets so that everyone has easy access to information about
their MiniHero. You can print the downloadable MiniHero Character Sheet from the website or you can make a
copy from the Appendix at the back of the book.

PENCILS, ERASER & PAPER:

Handy for keeping track of loot, non-player character names (I’m always
forgetting who I was just talking to), making maps, (so your MiniHero doesn’t
get lost), and the occasional paper airplane.

SNACKS!
You're going to want snacks, adventuring is hungry work.  Do make sure that the snacks aren’t super greasy or
messy or else you'll have stained papers and slippery bricks!

TRACKPACK:
Throughout the adventures Clutch Points (CPs), which are like health points, and Gusto Points, which represent
the characters’ energy, go up and down a lot! On the MiniHero Character Sheet, at the very bottom, is a handy
chart for tracking these points.

You can also use a TrackPack to keep track of the previously mentioned stats plus the character’s equipment,
bricks and anything else you can add on to it. It’s like a physical backpack to track all your MiniHero’s stuff. This
is especially handy for younger players as it gives them a tangible idea of how many health and energy points
their MiniHero has left. Sort of like a 3D character sheet.

In the sample picture, the TrackPack is made from an 8x16 stud plate. The red cone bricks represent Clutch
Points. The yellow cylinders are the Gusto Points. The three red bricks are Lucky
Bricks, which will be discussed later. The back row are Items being carried
by the MiniHero, perhaps in their backpack, along with Clutch Points and
Gusto Points that have been used up. You can see that some
clip bricks have been added to hold some items on more
easily.

Grab your bricks and go play!

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